Title
Author
Notes
Grades
Saving Sweetness
Diane Stanely
dialect

Milkman’s Boy
Donald Hall
Early 1900’s change over time

Osbert
Elizabeth Kimmel

primary
Beatrice’s Goat
Page McBrier
Vocab

Relatives Came
Cynthia Rylant
Vocab
intermediate
Angel’s in the Dust
Margot Theis Rowen


Recess Queen
Alexis o’Neill
Fun language, playful

She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on her Head
Kathryn Lasky
Vocab

Way We Do it in Japan
Geneva Cobb
Vocab, context clues

White Dynamite and Curly Kid
Bill Martin
Dialect and voice

Knots on a Counting Rope
Bill Martin
metaphor

Zombie in Love
Kelly DiPucchio
Context Clues - Great vocabulary, Inferring from pictures. Just fun! Word Play
k-5
Oink?
Margie Palatini
Good for vocab development (content, pigsty, disgraceful, untidy, slop, downwind, dab, concluded, insist, distraught, insufferable, gathering, fond, convinced, refreshing, exhausted)